How are you guys doing today?
Good.
Wooh!
Good?
Yeah!
[INAUDIBLE] right?
How are you guys doing tonight?
Yeah!
Cool.
So I feed off of energy when I'm performing.
So we're going to practice a few things
to get you guys warmed up.
Is that OK?
Yeah?
OK.
So put one hand like this.
Put one hand like this.
You just heard something amazing.
Do this.
[SNAPPING FINGERS]
All right.
You can't snap.
Put one hand like this.
Put another hand like this.
[CLAPPING HANDS]
Matthew, show them how to do the scream that you do.
Whoo!
That works.
One more time.
Whoa!
There you go.
Stomp your feet.
[INAUDIBLE] Yeah?
OK.
So the first piece that I'm going to do tonight
is actually a bit of a coming to age story.
I wrote it on a Friday night when
I had all these plans to do all these things
and they all fell through.
And I realized that the things that I find
or that I found at the time awkward or, kind of, nerdy
were actually the things that is what made me authentic.
And made me, me.
And learning how to love my authentic self.
So, it's called "On Friday Nights."
"Once, I stretched my arms around a world
that didn't belong to me.
Embraced the unfamiliar until it called me
its own by the end of the night.
I danced under every star we had ever walked under.
How we conquered them.
See, it's on a still night.
You remember the nights that loved
you enough to carry you home.
You remember when you were rich and crafted love.
How you would never leave the house
without enough wanted ones to pay to forget, I know.
Well, I guess I feel as if I'm too
frugal to pay for a numb smile.
You've got to be careful for the nights that are simple
and slip through your grasp like sand.
My Friday nights.
Even in the mixture of the birds and the bees and this spy tiny
they call me out by the confessions on my sleeves,
I know.
I'm a girl with too many gods to worship and too many
books to read.
This acquired taste to thickened skin, I am.
See, I am just an acknowledgment of my shattered skin.
Today, I'm half daughter yet all rainbow.
I'll bring forth good lover, one fourth lesson learned.
I'm a quarter of a lion without my cashed in soul.
Tonight, I am as heavy as I can handle.
Tonight, I am whatever I think I am.
Tonight, I will be whatever I want to be.
Will be."
[APPLAUSE]
Whoo!